This officially puts the nail in the coffin of Christmas in my book. Etsy has proved to me it’s not about making people happy, it’s about overcharging for crap.
HEY! It’s a Christmas Miracle! Finally, some truth in advertising – she ADMITS it’s a ‘last minute gift’. Also, that she had to scrabble to come up with it.
Is it wrong that I was relieved this seller is only charging $5 for this junk? Considering we’ve seen stuff of this calibre, or worse, with a ridiculously higher price tag…
Still don’t know anyone who would honestly buy this, though, and I’m a pastor’s kid who hangs with a largely Christian circle. Junk is junk regardless of what you believe.
I can see wanting to dump the difficult J tile from the set- but you really need to hang on to those S tiles, also- you might want to hang on to that U- as soon as you get rid of it you’re bound to draw the Q tile.
Apparently my internal narrative has a lisp, because at first I thought it read, “Shelf shitter”, and I said, “great, now we’re back on theme.” You can imagine my disappointment.
I actually like it. It just needs a blank tile on either end with something festive painted on it to finish it. (Flip over the Zs and use the backs.)
But, then again, my mom was an elementary school teacher at a Catholic school, so she got shit like this from the kids every year and we had these knickknacks all over the house and in her classroom since she felt bad getting rid of them. Ok, so maybe this is a hoarder’s dream gift. But at least this lady’s not asking extra for shipping – that would be a bit much. If she ships Priority, she’s really only asking a buck or two for it.
One of the benefits of this item is that the wood is smooth. That way, when your recipient bludgeons you to death with it*, the police will have no trouble lifting a clean set of prints.
(*Given the weight of the tile holder and tiles, bludgeoning anyone to death will take the better part of Christmas morning)
Now follow me people on this one…
Jesus is worth 12 points.
Jesus had 12 apostles!
Judas is worth 13 points! (need I say more?)
Jesus H. Christ is worth 27 points.
In the Book of Matthew, Chapter 27 involves Jesus going before Pilate and being crucified!
Cross is worth 7 points.
You score a 7th point in football when you kick it over the crossbar!
Both Satan and Santa are worth 5 points.
Children turn from nice to naughty when they are 5 years old!
As for potential double word and letter scores, Jesus is/was God’s only Son, so it would be inappropriate to double anything. As for tripling words or letters, due to the theological controversy surrounding the existence of the Holy Trinity (20 points, by the way), it, too, seems inappropriate.
So score one for Dan Brown!
Back in my day, we PLAYED Scrabble. We didn’t sell it off piece by piece…
…of course, I’m poor and we had to make our own fun in those days. Fun that didn’t involve laughing at the one born every minute.*
(*sucker–probably Catholic because of the high birth-rate.)
As a seller on other sites, I will have to say that she’s right to give quotes to Alaska and Hawaii – it costs sometimes double to ship to those states. Not to Betty Buzzkill, or anything. LOL – she should have said “contiguous united States” to make you all happy…..but yeah – shipping charges suck….and the seller eating that kinda upcharge sucks worse….
Well, even – she may ONLY ship to the USA, but those in Alaska and Hawaii pay more (as stated in my previous post – with good reason) but DOES NOT ship internationally. So actually, she stated it fairly well.
@#34, Nico, I so read “Self Shitter” also. WAAAy back in the 80′s I was a telemarketer (ah, don’t vote me down, I had no choice) And one of our clients was Citibank, and they had this total rip off program called, “City Shopper” and I can’t tell you HOW many times I said, “Shitty Shopper” by mistake. I didn’t last long at that job….just as well…I was suicidal by the end of every shift.
‘#32 whimsiclesthenics :
Woah. TooManyCookbooks. That’s kind of freaky. Except, it makes sense that we’d both think of Cthulhu, since we both love craft.’
Snerk — ‘love craft’ — I like! This deserves to be some kind of alternacraft group name.
While I can kind of understand having a knickknack that says “Jesus” on it, even if I think this is a very silly and half-assed design…why on earth would I want a Scrabble tray that says “Snowman”??
December 20, 2010 at 10:20 am
First Pluto was no longer a planet and now I learn that Alaska and Hawaii are no longer part of the USA.
But Santa’s still real, right?
RIGHT??
December 20, 2010 at 10:23 am
“Jesus” is too fucking right. That’d be my only comment, if I got this as a gift.
December 20, 2010 at 10:23 am
P
I
JESUS
C
E
O
F
S
H
I
T
…Triple word score!
December 20, 2010 at 10:24 am
Jesus is only worth 12 points? I hope they put it on the triple word score…
December 20, 2010 at 10:25 am
I challenge this! Proper nouns aren’t allowed in Scrabble, dumbass.
December 20, 2010 at 10:25 am
This officially puts the nail in the coffin of Christmas in my book. Etsy has proved to me it’s not about making people happy, it’s about overcharging for crap.
December 20, 2010 at 10:26 am
Strong adhesive? Everyone knows you use nails to stick Jesus to boards.
December 20, 2010 at 10:27 am
Does she take custom orders?
December 20, 2010 at 10:27 am
I think I will pass on this one. I thought I saw a more better fitting upwords version of this.
December 20, 2010 at 10:29 am
HEY! It’s a Christmas Miracle! Finally, some truth in advertising – she ADMITS it’s a ‘last minute gift’. Also, that she had to scrabble to come up with it.
December 20, 2010 at 10:35 am
Overheard conversation…
“ooooo…Mommy, what you get me.”
“It’s custom made from Etsy. It’s a shelf sitter. It said Jesus, but I got you one that says Santa.”
“Ummm..Mom, there’s a typo…it says Satan.”
“Jesus!”
December 20, 2010 at 10:37 am
My homeboy Jesus’ will fucking love this.
December 20, 2010 at 10:38 am
Challenge this one, bitchez!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/peaseblossom/doublewordscore.jpg
What do you mean it’s not a word?
December 20, 2010 at 10:40 am
This will be the perfect gift for my cousin Jesus Miguel in Jalisco!
December 20, 2010 at 10:40 am
You’re missing two tiles. Unless you were holding this at the end of the game.
December 20, 2010 at 10:41 am
S H I T
T
U
P
I
D
December 20, 2010 at 10:41 am
I yearn for the good ol’ days when there were no proper nouns in Scrabble.
December 20, 2010 at 10:42 am
Jesus would roll over in his grave if he saw this. Oh wait…
December 20, 2010 at 10:42 am
Is it wrong that I was relieved this seller is only charging $5 for this junk? Considering we’ve seen stuff of this calibre, or worse, with a ridiculously higher price tag…
Still don’t know anyone who would honestly buy this, though, and I’m a pastor’s kid who hangs with a largely Christian circle. Junk is junk regardless of what you believe.
December 20, 2010 at 10:43 am
Also, I smell lawsuit… http://www.etsy.com/listing/63543935/free-shipping-last-minute-christmas
December 20, 2010 at 10:44 am
This is far worse than anything else on the advent calendar. Worse than the clay nativity even. Who thinks of this rubbish?! Worse, who buys it?!
December 20, 2010 at 11:02 am
#19, $5.00 is a rip-off. I sold an entire scrabble set STILL IN SHRINK WRAP at my last yard sale for $1.50
December 20, 2010 at 11:03 am
(it’s because it was the 5th box of Scrabble we had in the house. and we really don’t need more than 3)
December 20, 2010 at 11:15 am
I know I’m shakey in geography, but aren’t Alaska & Hawaii still part of the USA?
December 20, 2010 at 11:24 am
That’s a waste of a good Scrabble set! Sheesh.
December 20, 2010 at 11:29 am
I can see wanting to dump the difficult J tile from the set- but you really need to hang on to those S tiles, also- you might want to hang on to that U- as soon as you get rid of it you’re bound to draw the Q tile.
December 20, 2010 at 11:37 am
I at once feel both great and horrible about my skills that there is finally something posted that even I could exactly replicate.
December 20, 2010 at 11:43 am
For $5, I could get the entire set brand new… But for each tray plus words, $15 profit!
I think she’d make more if she used dirty words though, at least judging from the past advent entries.
December 20, 2010 at 11:57 am
Do you think people raise these up to the top shelves at Easter?
I want one that says Cthulhu. That’s worth 69 points as an opening round word. Except for the proper noun thing, of course.
December 20, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Yeah, but ‘Cthulhu’ gives you more points.
December 20, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Damn you, 29! Stupid WordPress logging me out!
I do hear that they allow some proper nouns now, though.
December 20, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Woah. TooManyCookbooks. That’s kind of freaky. Except, it makes sense that we’d both think of Cthulhu, since we both love craft.
December 20, 2010 at 12:25 pm
This might actually be worth the money if it read “jozxyqk” instead of “Jesus”.
December 20, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Apparently my internal narrative has a lisp, because at first I thought it read, “Shelf shitter”, and I said, “great, now we’re back on theme.” You can imagine my disappointment.
December 20, 2010 at 1:09 pm
I actually like it. It just needs a blank tile on either end with something festive painted on it to finish it. (Flip over the Zs and use the backs.)
But, then again, my mom was an elementary school teacher at a Catholic school, so she got shit like this from the kids every year and we had these knickknacks all over the house and in her classroom since she felt bad getting rid of them. Ok, so maybe this is a hoarder’s dream gift. But at least this lady’s not asking extra for shipping – that would be a bit much. If she ships Priority, she’s really only asking a buck or two for it.
December 20, 2010 at 1:17 pm
One of the benefits of this item is that the wood is smooth. That way, when your recipient bludgeons you to death with it*, the police will have no trouble lifting a clean set of prints.
(*Given the weight of the tile holder and tiles, bludgeoning anyone to death will take the better part of Christmas morning)
December 20, 2010 at 1:23 pm
@TooManyCookbooks & Whimsicle-I for one would love to see a craft show entitled “Crafting with Cthulu”.
December 20, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Now follow me people on this one…
Jesus is worth 12 points.
Jesus had 12 apostles!
Judas is worth 13 points! (need I say more?)
Jesus H. Christ is worth 27 points.
In the Book of Matthew, Chapter 27 involves Jesus going before Pilate and being crucified!
Cross is worth 7 points.
You score a 7th point in football when you kick it over the crossbar!
Both Satan and Santa are worth 5 points.
Children turn from nice to naughty when they are 5 years old!
As for potential double word and letter scores, Jesus is/was God’s only Son, so it would be inappropriate to double anything. As for tripling words or letters, due to the theological controversy surrounding the existence of the Holy Trinity (20 points, by the way), it, too, seems inappropriate.
So score one for Dan Brown!
December 20, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Hey – I am just glad is it spelled correctly.
December 20, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Back in my day, we PLAYED Scrabble. We didn’t sell it off piece by piece…
…of course, I’m poor and we had to make our own fun in those days. Fun that didn’t involve laughing at the one born every minute.*
(*sucker–probably Catholic because of the high birth-rate.)
December 20, 2010 at 2:11 pm
As a seller on other sites, I will have to say that she’s right to give quotes to Alaska and Hawaii – it costs sometimes double to ship to those states. Not to Betty Buzzkill, or anything. LOL – she should have said “contiguous united States” to make you all happy…..but yeah – shipping charges suck….and the seller eating that kinda upcharge sucks worse….
December 20, 2010 at 2:12 pm
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December 20, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I definitely read this as “Self Shitter” and was interested.
December 20, 2010 at 3:38 pm
@#34, Nico, I so read “Self Shitter” also. WAAAy back in the 80′s I was a telemarketer (ah, don’t vote me down, I had no choice) And one of our clients was Citibank, and they had this total rip off program called, “City Shopper” and I can’t tell you HOW many times I said, “Shitty Shopper” by mistake. I didn’t last long at that job….just as well…I was suicidal by the end of every shift.
December 20, 2010 at 3:49 pm
What is my gardener’s name doing on this shelf sitter?
December 20, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Maybe she’s charging for spelling it right.
December 20, 2010 at 4:35 pm
‘#32 whimsiclesthenics :
Woah. TooManyCookbooks. That’s kind of freaky. Except, it makes sense that we’d both think of Cthulhu, since we both love craft.’
Snerk — ‘love craft’ — I like! This deserves to be some kind of alternacraft group name.
December 20, 2010 at 8:13 pm
While I can kind of understand having a knickknack that says “Jesus” on it, even if I think this is a very silly and half-assed design…why on earth would I want a Scrabble tray that says “Snowman”??
December 21, 2010 at 2:20 am
i’ve made some hideously shitty last minute christmas gifts in my time. i’m just glad to know i’m not the only one.
December 22, 2010 at 4:10 pm
#37 Knittin et al – “CALLS for Cthulhu” is pretty cool…